Published March 18, 2005
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Journal article
511 keV photons from color superconducting dark matter
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 (Canada)
Description
We discuss the possibility that the recent detection of 511 keV γ rays from the galactic bulge, as observed by the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, can be naturally explained by the supermassive very dense droplets (strangelets) of dark matter. These droplets are assumed to be made of ordinary light quarks (or antiquarks) condensed in a nonhadronic color superconducting phase. The droplets can carry electrons (or positrons) in the bulk or/and on the surface. The e+e- annihilation events take place due to the collisions of electrons from the visible matter with positrons from dark matter droplets which may result in the bright 511 keV γ-ray line from the bulge of the Galaxy
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101301;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0406146v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 94
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 101301-101301.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36069118
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; COSMOLOGY; D QUARKS; DETECTION; DROPLETS; ELECTRONS; GALAXIES; GAMMA RADIATION; KEV RANGE 100-1000; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; U QUARKS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; BOSONS; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; KEV RANGE; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLES; PHYSICS; QUARKS; RADIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society